Peter Sloterdijk on the over-eroticised West

In a lengthy interview with Jan Feddersen and Susanne Lang about Christmas, God and the world, the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk explains that he does not see a return to religion as the path to peace of mind or to salvation. "The religions continue to belong to the problem rather than the solution. Were such a thing as a world spirit to exist, it would now come out and say: the only way still open is the way of civilisation. For on the world's stage two complexes are facing one another: one is the unbalanced over-eroticised greed of the ravaged West, the other, equally unbalanced is the fanatical Middle East, devastated by resentment. If the balance is not redressed all round, global self-destruction is unavoidable."

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